Posted by Lucktey on November 5, 2000 at 04:48:44:
For 4 years I have been playing this game now, with pauzes of 3 to 5 months between it. Its mystery(sp?) has always grasped me in a way no other game could. I always presumed that cf wasn't about players but about a collection of different stories that in one way or another conflict or go hand in hand. These past days I found a huge amount of posts on who and what is elite or not, which basicly came down to who can pk well or not. Chars were put down, players were judged. And this all by some obscure reasoning. I know, by experience, that players would judge a char by a first meeting alone, never talking to it again ic. And all they can say is, jeez... That is one bad creation. It just makes me wonder. If today, everybody doesn't want to take the effort to dig deeper beneath the surface and just looks at abilities and the first reply you get from a char... Why roleplay? In a way, we play this game for us but also for others. You want your char to create an interaction and oppertunities with other chars. Who would care about the lone uncaballed warrior that strives for the right of pure combat throughout Thera if this char never comes out with what he believes in. If he just made certain his battles were pure but aside of this, never talked about it or interacted with anything else. But what is creating a world about? I think feelings. Just raw feelings. Fear, excitement, pleasure, curiousity... All granted by interaction with others. A powerfull lich would mean nothing if he'd never come out of his shelter. And if he just pk'ed alone without even showing some of his reasoning, we'd probably end up calling him a mindless pk'er. Why still roleplay if all we do is hammer a char in the ground if we don't like or understand it. Maybe there is something sturring in the background, waiting to be revealed. I don't know. Maybe its just a rant. It nags on me though. Have fun in the game, Lucktey.